- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 21:53:26 -0500
- To: <lguarino@adobe.com>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Oh i slept today. But im a bit day and night reversed right now (got no sleep on overnight flight) RE division between user agent and content --- what if you build your user agent out of flash. The user (or his employer) has no option of 'purchasing conformant User Agents" since the user agent didn't exist until you try to access the page. And user agent requirements are not looked at for content - just for viewers. Hence I think we may need a content requirement that says "if you bundle a user agent with your content you must include an accessible one". Maybe also "if you require a particular user agent - (e.g. plug in) to be accessible then you need to point to one that will work. (also for an agent in general????) Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. Director - Trace R & D Center University of Wisconsin-Madison -----Original Message----- From: lguarino@adobe.com [mailto:lguarino@adobe.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:59 PM To: Gregg Vanderheiden Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: Re: RE: RE: Impact Analysis for Guideline 4.2 Gregg, you must never sleep! And we definitely need to discuss this topic; thanks for bringing it up. I think the screen reader access would need to be provided by the user agent for the technology in which you are creating the user interface. So this question would definitely affect baseline considerations. We may also be making other assumptions about the "host" user agent, what role it plays in interacting with the user interface created by the content author, and hence about the division of responsibility between the content author and user agent. Loretta
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